Revision Plan in Abbas Abad Land Development, Seyed Hadi Mirmiran, Hamid Mirmiran

Project Name: Revision Plan in Abbas Abad Land Development (Comprehensive Spatial-Physical Plan of Abbas Abad Lands)
Client: Tehran Municipality، Abbas Abad Renovation Company
Area: 539 hectares
Design Managers: Seyed Hadi Mirmiran, Hamid Mirmiran
Senior Project Consultant: Iraj Etesam
Design Consultants: Gholamreza Kazemian, Mohammadreza Masnavi, Ebrahim Sina
Coordinators: Farideh Saebi, Amirpooya Asghari
Design Team: Saman Sayar, Baharak Keshani, Ali Farzadi, Leila Akbari, Pooneh Vakilian
Urban Planning Studies: Gholamreza Kazemian
Social and Economic studies: Mohammad Salari
Architectural Planning studies: Nader Roozrokh
Traffic Studies: Amudrah Consulting Engineers
Infrastructure Installation Studies: Energy Consulting Engineers
Civil Studies: Seyed Mohammad Hossein Mostafavi
Scale Model: Hamid Askari, Alireza Khosravi
Graphics and Presentation: Reza Soltanizadeh
Writing and Editing: Alireza Karimpour
Company: Naghsh-e Jahan Consulting Engineers – Pars
Function: Special Urban Plan, Social Center, and Tourism
Chief Engineer: Abbas Abad Renovation Company
Project Address: Abbas Abad hills, Tehran
Date: 2005-…
Photographer: Abbas Abad Renovation Company
Website: www.njp-arch.com
Email: info@njp-arch.com
Instagram: @hamidmirmiran_architect

Abbas Abad lands with an area of about 539 hectares have a special strategic position. Sixty three hectares of it is dedicated to the construction of Tehran Mosalla. The Farman Farmaeian-Gruen plan (1995) as the first plan and the Atek and Arcolog companies plan (1998) as the last joint plan for it had been prepared and approved. The implementation of these plans was on the agenda for some time but based on guidelines and approvals, the last plan had to get revised as a new plan. The revision plan was assigned to four consulting engineering companies, Parhouse, Sharan, Farnhad and Naghsh Jahan Pars, and as a result two options were proposed of which the second one was approved, although eventually, the third approach, which was derived from the first and second options, got finalized. This approach was in accordance with sustainable development and its main focus was on Mosalla in Tehran. The design had a main north-south pedestrian axis which led to Mosalla from the south and from the other side to the Shahid Haghani highway (Jahan Koodak). Along the axis, other public spaces like Mosalla’s Golgasht (the grand square of city) and Baghdarreh museum were located in a way that the views of Alborz and Mosalla mountains were not disturbed.
Three stations of the first line of the Tehran metro correspond to this axis, and in the metro stations, which are located next to the main streets, wide pedestrian platforms are designed. This axis is located next to the three main communication axes of Tehran (Modares, Hemmat and Resalat), which divide the lands into seven areas.
In this plan, the existing buildings and some of the projects under construction have been preserved and organized with the help of landscaping and the creation of an artificial lake. Farhang Square and its surrounding complex are located in the northeast corner of Abbas Abad lands; Fahangestan complex, the national library, and the book garden are connected by a pedestrian axis to the main north-south axis of the complex. On the eastern side, Taleghani Forest Park, there is a garden-museum of the Iran-Iraq war and on the remaining lands, while preserving the topography of the land, new buildings in accordance with the function of the whole complex are constructed. In order to complete the complex and to improve the cost-benefit balances of the lands, a multi-functional complex has been designed in Beyhaqi parking lot (southeast of the complex) by which, the ultimate goal of the project i.e. creating green and cultural spaces for the complex was achieved.
Given that these lands are morphologically and ecologically an inseparable whole, it does not make sense to divide them in three regions of Tehran. Therefore, in the plan, it is proposed that the management of all of it be under the supervision of Abbas Abad Renovation Company. In addition, using the lands requires its own set of rules and regulations, so it is suggested that the Abbas Abad complex gets managed as a publicly owned area with rules and regulations appropriate to its scale and function.